Engine Yard Co-Founder Lance Walley Joins Chargify as CEO
Chargify Welcomes Technology Start-Up Veteran as New CEO.
(PRWEB) November 13, 2009 -- Chargify, the recurring billing system that helps Web 2.0 and SaaS companies
grow, announced today that Lance Walley, co-founder and former CEO of Engine Yard, the leader in Ruby on
Rails automation and management technologies, will join Chargify as CEO effective immediately.
“As CEO of Chargify, I can have a real impact on the success of other entrepreneurs,” said Lance. “Chargify is a
lot like Engine Yard in that both companies allow entrepreneurs to focus on what's important while letting topic
experts run other critical parts of the business.”
Lance is a technology start-up veteran who co-founded his first company, Parallax, in 1987. In 2001, Lance
founded Quality Humans, a Perl and Ruby on Rails consulting company. His consulting experience led him to
identify a need among early Rails clients for deployment and scaling services, and in 2006, Lance co-founded
Engine Yard. As CEO of Engine Yard, Lance fostered rapid growth and implemented a strong management team.
In 2008, the company received venture investment from Amazon, Benchmark and NEA.
“We’re very excited to have Lance join the Chargify team,” said David Hauser, Founder of Chargify and
Grasshopper Labs. “We’ve seen amazing growth in a short period of time, and Lance’s involvement will only
accelerate that. Lance is an experienced entrepreneur with strong ties to the Ruby on Rails community, which is
just one of many development communities Chargify will serve. ”
Chargify changes the way businesses look at the billing process by offering powerful tools that provide insight
into customer behavior. A real-time dashboard and intuitive user interface make it easy to access data about
revenue, signups, and cancellations. Chargify automatically analyzes customers' billing data, helping to uncover
trends that will in turn inform business decisions. Chargify also gives entrepreneurs the power to increase